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THE F10EAL GIFT. 
HONESTY. 
Lunarie Biennis ,—Class 15, Order 1. 
A garden plant, with spikes of purple flowers, blooming 
early in the spring. —Germany, 
HONESTY. 
W hat constitutes the true nobility ? 
Not wealth, nor name, nor outward pomp, 
nor power; 
Fools have them all; and vicious men may be 
The idols and the pageants of an hour, 
But ’tis to have a true and honest heart, 
Above all meanness, and above all crime, 
And act the right and honorable part, 
In every circumstance of place, and time, 
He, who is thus, from God his patent takes, 
His Maker formed him, the true nobleman; 
Whate’er is low, and vicious he forsakes, 
And acts on rectitude’s unchanging plan, 
Things change around him; changes touch 
not him; 
The star, that guides his path, fails not, nor 
waxes dim. 
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